Reading against fascism in the age of trump

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the ways of acting of a student in the context of pre-service training. The study was made within the area of Applied Linguistics - Language and Education. This research is based on a critical paradigm, in which the central point is the creation of contexts for meaningful dialogues among participants for their learning and development. Theoretically it is based on the Activity Theory Socio-Cultural-Historical, focusing on the concepts of teaching and learning, development, mediation, and ZPD as a historical - cultural - socio- coming-to-Be space, where language organizes the relationship among participants. Central in this context is the constitutive dialectical and dialogical movement of language, which allows the collaborative production of new knowledge. This study is supported by the Collaborative Critical Research, a methodological option used to construct contexts of understanding and transformation. The practice of foreign language teaching and learning, through activities with the use of social media, favored the development of the students-teachers involved. Most of these students found they were willing to teach in needy communities and the focal student became part of research groups, academic communities, and postgraduate courses.